From Tavip: Standing on Our Own Feet
Api Kartini (1964) excerpt from Sukarno's Tavip (17 August 1964) address on landreform: demands implementation of UUPA and the sharecropping law within promised deadlines, endorses Landreform Courts, urges officials to consult peasants, links food self-sufficiency to land reform, and supports abolishing IGO/IGOB and im
Trial after failed coup: Untung admits order to murder generals
Het Vrije Volk/Reuters report (25 Feb 1966, p.21) on Colonel Untung's trial before the Jakarta court-martial: he admits his order to take away the generals meant they should be killed, says he acted to save Sukarno from a military plot and denies PKI membership. Lawyer Trees Soenito-Heyligers asked Sukarno to pardon Nj
Analysis of Responsibility: Sudisman's Defence Speech before the Mahmillub, 1967 (Pamphlet, 1975)
English pamphlet (Melbourne, 1975, trans. Benedict Anderson) of PKI General Secretary Sudisman's final Mahmillub speech of 21 July 1967, 'Analysis of Responsibility'. A leader's self-critical account of the PKI and the 30 September Movement.
Analysis of Responsibility (Sudisman, 1967; marxists.org Text)
Online English text (marxists.org) of Sudisman's 21 July 1967 Mahmillub defence 'Analysis of Responsibility': his choice of 'the path of death', PKI self-criticism and account of the 30 September Movement. Same speech as the printed pamphlet.
Mrs Soenito from Zwolle arrested in Indonesia
Friese Koerier Reuters item (5 Jan 1968, p.11): Jakarta police arrested Dutch-born lawyer Trees Soenito-Heyligers, 52, on suspicion of membership of the banned communist scholars' association HSI. She had defended trade unionist Njono two years earlier; her husband Soenito, parliament secretary, was arrested after the
Military Tribunals to Try Gestapu-PKI Elements (FBIS, 29 Jan 1975)
FBIS item (Jakarta radio, 29 Jan 1975): military tribunals in Padang and Pekanbaru began trying six Gestapu-PKI and subversion defendants, all former junior officers or soldiers. Names, units and judges are listed. Gerwani and women are not mentioned; the people tag Umi Sardjono appears unrelated to the text.
The 30 September Movement: a political movement of the armed forces or an intelligence operation? (Holtzappel, 1979)
Journal article by Coen Holtzappel (Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1979) analysing the Untung and Njono trial records to argue the 30 September Movement was steered by Air Force and Army intelligence, with Sjam's Pringgodani group deliberately compromising the PKI and Aidit. Gerwani is mentioned only once, in a footnote
TAPOL Bulletin no. 34 (London, June 1979, 20 pp.): exposes inconsistencies in KOPKAMTIB release figures, resettlement camps in Kalimantan and Buru, the student trials, release oath and ex-tapol discrimination, the Nijmegen psycho-test cover-up, TAPOL's research on 366 1965 trials, IGGI aid. Gerwani is not named; one it
TAPOL Bulletin no. 52 (London, July 1982, 20 pp.): East Timor famine and the Nordland report, West Papua and transmigration, Dutch arms sales, Muslim political trials and torture, press bans (Tempo, Pelita), student repression, and an Atmakusumah book review noting that 46 of 163 newspapers were banned in October 1965.
TAPOL Bulletin no. 94 (London, Aug 1989), mostly on East Timor (new arrests, Prabowo-led operations, Bishop Belo's UN letter, asylum seekers), student trials in Yogyakarta, Kedung Ombo, Lampung evictions, forestry and population control. Gerwani is not mentioned. Relevant context: ex-tapols' 'ET' identity cards and 'cl